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RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman Statement On The Democrat Attacks Of Karl Rove
Republican National Committee ^ | June 23, 2005 | RNC

Posted on 06/23/2005 1:45:19 PM PDT by seamus

 "It’s outrageous that the same Democrats who stood by Dick Durbin’s libeling of our military are now expressing faux outrage over Karl Rove’s statement of historical fact.  George Soros, Michael Moore, MoveOn and the hard left were wrong after 9/11, just as it was wrong for Democrat leaders to stand by and remain silent after Dick Durbin made his deplorable comments.”

- RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman

Liberal Third Party Groups Urged Restraint, Blamed America:

 

Immediately After 9/11, MoveOn.Org Petition Urged “Moderation And Restraint” And Use Of “International Judicial Institutions.”

  • “We, The Undersigned, Citizens And Residents Of The United States Of America … Appeal To The President Of The United States, George W. Bush … And To All Leaders Internationally To Use Moderation And Restraint In Responding To The Recent Terrorist Attacks Against The United States.” (MoveOn.Org Website, “MoveOn Peace,” http://web.archive.org/web/20021127190638/peace.moveon.org/petition.php3, Posted 9/13/01, Accessed 6/23/05)

 

• “We Implore The Powers That Be To Use, Wherever Possible, International Judicial Institutions And International Human Rights Law To Bring To Justice Those Responsible For The Attacks, Rather Than The Instruments Of War, Violence Or Destruction.” (MoveOn.Org Website, “MoveOn Peace,” http://web.archive.org/web/20021127190638/peace.moveon.org/petition.php3, Posted 9/13/01, Accessed 6/23/05)

 

• “[W]e Demand That There Be No Recourse To Nuclear, Chemical Or Biological Weapons, Or Any Weapons Of Indiscriminate Destruction, And Feel That It Is Our Inalienable Human Right To Live In A World Free Of Such Arms.” (MoveOn.Org Website, “MoveOn Peace,” http://web.archive.org/web/20021127190638/peace.moveon.org/petition.php3, Posted 9/13/01, Accessed 6/23/05)

 

Just After 9/11, Liberal Filmmaker Michael Moore Derided “Terror And Bloodshed” Committed By Americans.  (David Brooks, Op-Ed, “All Hail Moore,” The New York Times, 6/26/04)

  • Just After 9/11, Moore Blamed America’s “Taxpayer-Funded Terrorism” And Bush Administration For Terrorist Attacks. “We abhor terrorism – unless we’re the ones doing the terrorizing. We paid and trained and armed a group of terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s who killed over 30,000 civilians. That was OUR work. You and me.…Let’s mourn, let’s grieve, and when it’s appropriate let’s examine our contribution to the unsafe world we live in.” (Michael Moore Website Archive, “Death, Downtown,” Posted 9/12/01, www.michaelmoore.com, Accessed 7/27/04)

 

• Michael Moore Said U.S. Should Not Have Removed Taliban After 9/11.  Moore:  “Likewise, to bomb Afghanistan – I mean, I’ve never understood this, Tim.” (CNBC’s “Tim Russert,” 10/19/02)

 

Liberal Donor George Soros Claimed America Should Have Treated 9/11 Attacks As Crime, Responded With Police Work.  “War is a false and misleading metaphor in the context of combating terrorism.  Treating the attacks of September 11 as crimes against humanity would have been more appropriate.  Crimes require police work, not military action.  To protect against terrorism, you need precautionary measures, awareness, and intelligence gathering – all of which ultimately depend on the support of the populations among which terrorists operate.  Imagine for a moment that September 11 had been treated as a crime.  We would have pursued Bin Laden in Afghanistan, but we would not have invaded Iraq.  Nor would we have our military struggling to perform police work in full combat gear and getting killed in the process.”  (George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy, 2004, p. 18) 

 

• Soros Said The Execution Of 9/11 Attacks “Could Not Have Been More Spectacular.”  “Admittedly, the terrorist attack was a historic event in its own right.  Hijacking fully loaded airplanes and using them as suicide bombs was an audacious idea, and the execution could not have been more spectacular.”  (George Soros, The Bubble Of American Supremacy, 2004, p. 2)

 

• Soros Said War On Terror Had Claimed More Innocent Victims Than 9/11 Attack Itself. “This is a very tough thing to say, but the fact is, that the war on terror as conducted by this administration, has claimed more innocent victims that the original attack itself.” (George Soros, Remarks At Take Back America Conference, Washington, DC, 6/3/04)

 

Liberal Democrats Urged Restraint, Blamed America:

 

Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH):  “‘The Time For Peace Is Now,’ [Kucinich] Declared Optimistically July 11, Two Months To The Day Before Terrorists Hit The Pentagon And The World Trade Center.  … Sitting In His Capitol Hill Office Last Week, Near A Window Where He Could See The Smoke Rising From The Pentagon On Sept. 11, Kucinich Insisted He Is More Optimistic Than Ever That People Worldwide Are Ready To Embrace The Cause Of Nonviolence.” (Elizabeth Auster, “Offer The Hand Of Peace,” [Cleveland, OH] Plain Dealer, 9/30/01)

  • Kucinich: “Afghanistan May Be An Incubator Of Terrorism But It Doesn’t Follow That We Bomb Afghanistan …” (Elizabeth Auster, “Offer The Hand Of Peace,” [Cleveland, OH] Plain Dealer, 9/30/01)

 

Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-HI): “Only Now Are We Trying To Figure Out What Is Islam. Maybe If There Was A Department Of Peace, They Would Be Able To Say, ‘Uh-Oh, We’ve Got Some Problems With These People,’ … I Truly Believe That If We Had A Department Of Peace, We Would Have Seen [9/11] Coming.” (Ethan Wallison, “War A Challenge For Peace Caucus,” Roll Call, 10/1/01)

 

Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA): “I Am Convinced That Military Action Will Not Prevent Further Acts Of International Terrorism Against The United States.” (Eddy Ramirez, “Calif. Congresswoman Alone In Vote Against War Powers Resolution,” [University Of California-Berkeley] Daily Californian, 9/17/01)

 

Al Sharpton (D-NY) Said That The Attacks On The World Trade Center Are Evidence That “America Is Beginning To Reap What It Has Sown.”  (Adam Nagourney, “Say It Loud,” The New York Times, 12/1/02)

 

Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) Claimed Osama Bin Laden Could Be Compared To “Revolutionaries That Helped To Cast Off The British Crown.” “‘One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown,’ Kaptur told an Ohio newspaper, The (Toledo) Blade.” (Malie Rulon, “Lawmaker Compares Osama, U.S. Patriots,” The Associated Press, 3/6/03)

 

Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) Said The United States Would “Pay Every Single Hour, Ever Single Day” That Bombs Were Dropped In Afghanistan. “‘How much longer does the bombing campaign continue?’ Biden asked during an Oct. 22 speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. ‘We’re going to pay every single hour, every single day it continues.’” (Miles A. Pomper, "Building Anti-Terrorism Coalition Vaults Ahead Of Other Priorities," Congressional Quarterly Weekly, 10/26/01)

  • “The Bombing Campaign, [Biden] Said, Reinforced Existing Stereotypes Of The United States As A ‘High-Tech Bully …’” (Miles A. Pomper, "Building Anti-Terrorism Coalition Vaults Ahead Of Other Priorities," Congressional Quarterly Weekly, 10/26/01)

 

Gov. Howard Dean (D-VT) Said Osama Bin Laden Not Guilty.  Dean: “I Still Have This Old-Fashioned Notion That Even With People Like Osama, Who Is Very Likely To Be Found Guilty, We Should Do Our Best Not To, In Positions Of Executive Power, Not To Prejudge Jury Trials.” (“Dean Not Ready To Pronounce Osama Bin Laden Guilty,” The Associated Press, 12/26/03)

 

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) To High School Students: “How Would [Muslims] Look At Us Today If We Had Been There Helping Them With Some Of That Rather Than Just Being The People Who Are Going To Bomb In Iraq And Go To Afghanistan? … War Is Expensive Too … Your Generation Ought To Be Thinking About Whether We Should Be Better Neighbors Out In Other Countries So That They Have A Different Vision Of Us.” (Gregg Herrington, “Senator Asks Students To Ponder,” The [Vancouver, WA] Columbian, 12/19/02)

 

Sen. John Kerry (D-MA): “[W]ar On Terror Is Far Less Of A Military Operation And Far More Of An Intelligence-Gathering, Law-Enforcement Operation.”  (The Iowa Brown & Black Coalition Presidential Forum, Des Moines, IA, 1/11/04)

  • Kerry: “[W]hat We’ve Learned Is That The War On Terror Is Much More Of An Intelligence Operation And A Law Enforcement Operation.” (NPR’s “All Things Considered,” 3/19/03)

 

 

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To: don'tbedenied

Exactly.....Rove is one shrewd cookie....he's gonna have a gotcha..


21 posted on 06/23/2005 1:51:33 PM PDT by mystery-ak
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To: seamus
That's quite a rap sheet on liberal culpability in the Rove accusation.

Truth hurts.

22 posted on 06/23/2005 1:52:23 PM PDT by The_Victor (Doh!... stupid tagline)
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To: seamus

Good going Mehlman!

I like this guy more and more as time goes on. What state is he from? Can he run for anything?

Hope he's from Texas. I could see him running for Senate or Governor in Texas one of these days, how great would that be?


23 posted on 06/23/2005 1:53:07 PM PDT by zbigreddogz
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To: seamus

Good for Mehlman!

Glad to see that the GOP has taken off the 'kid gloves' and are finally 'telling it like it is!'


24 posted on 06/23/2005 1:53:10 PM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Call the Seven Weasels....using FREE Capitol number: 1-877-762-8762)
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To: don'tbedenied

absolutely. Rove is not going to do something like this off the cuff.


25 posted on 06/23/2005 1:53:34 PM PDT by Pikamax
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To: seamus

The Dems just got sucked into a Trap. I LOVE IT!!!


26 posted on 06/23/2005 1:53:54 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: seamus

This post proves Rove's point. It is real ammunition. The democrats wanted appeasement.

The Chamberlains of our time....but worse actually. Socialism is a despotic philosophy, and one despot will support another against freedom when given the chance.

They didn't want Afghan and Iraq to tumble, because those were their friends.


27 posted on 06/23/2005 1:53:54 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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To: seamus
Ouch, that's gonna leave a mark :-)

It appears, my fellow FReepers, THE GLOVES ARE OFF...........finally

28 posted on 06/23/2005 1:53:59 PM PDT by MJY1288 ("Dingy" Harry Reid & "Disturbed" Durbin are a Waste of Tax Payers Money)
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To: seamus
Earlier today there was an excellent piece on Ankle Biting Pundits observing that the lefty liberals have made a huge mistake picking this fight with Rove over these particular words.

These quotes reinforce that point. Now the Republicans have the opportunity to drag up all of the words by various Democrats essentially supporting the terrorists. It will get worse. Now when any Democrat screams anything anti-war or anti-military someone can stand back and say, "See Rove was right!"

Absolutely brilliant.

29 posted on 06/23/2005 1:54:06 PM PDT by An Old Marine
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To: seamus

I'm glad that our party isn't afraid to admit who we are and what we think of the libs.

I mean I was expecting from both the White House and the RNC some stupid distancers but hot-diggity, they are standing by our men. Kinda like the NRA and Tom Delay.


30 posted on 06/23/2005 1:54:24 PM PDT by USAfearsnobody
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To: Ron in Acreage

Well said! And I love your tagline. I've been a fan of G.Allen for a long time. He has a lot of the appeal that W has. And he wears cowboy boots.


31 posted on 06/23/2005 1:54:32 PM PDT by PaRebel (Self Defense: an unalienable right! (The Constitution contains no off-switch))
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To: seamus
The Demonrats are getting slaughtered and don't even know it!
32 posted on 06/23/2005 1:54:32 PM PDT by SwinneySwitch (Demonrats-beyond your expectations!)
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To: seamus
• Michael Moore Said U.S. Should Not Have Removed Taliban After 9/11. Moore: “Likewise, to bomb Afghanistan – I mean, I’ve never understood this, Tim.” (CNBC’s “Tim Russert,” 10/19/02)

I havent heard much from the left about Afghanistan...I want those who think it was a "good" war but Iraq is a "bad" war to explain the difference

33 posted on 06/23/2005 1:54:55 PM PDT by woofie ("Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!!")
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To: seamus

DOWN GOES FRAZIER! DOWN GOES FRAZIER! DOWN GOES FRAZIER!


34 posted on 06/23/2005 1:55:04 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (The modern Democratic Party: Attacking our defenders and defending our attackers.)
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To: don'tbedenied

He forgot to mention the dems were calling for us to pass some "global test" to defend ourselves. Seek our enemies permission, in other words.


35 posted on 06/23/2005 1:55:13 PM PDT by Ron in Acreage (It's the borders stupid! "ALLEN IN 08")
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To: tobyhill

Hillary just asked Rummy to denounce Rove's commane, guess that is an acknowledgement she's a Liberal too! LOL


36 posted on 06/23/2005 1:55:20 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: mystery-ak

bttt


37 posted on 06/23/2005 1:55:25 PM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: b4its2late

Let's just call it the Ratmedia; no more MSM.


38 posted on 06/23/2005 1:55:45 PM PDT by PaRebel (Self Defense: an unalienable right! (The Constitution contains no off-switch))
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To: motherof 3
I hope that Rove apologizes for NOTHING.

Personally, I want Rove to apologize...for the stupidity and lack of patriotism of the DemonRATs.

39 posted on 06/23/2005 1:56:04 PM PDT by steveegg (Only to a MARXIST is a VOTE considered a POWER GRAB. (thanks Seaplaner))
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To: seamus

Gee, it's almost like they had collected all of these quotes, and then Rove PURPOSELY made the charge so the democrats could call him to apologize, so the media would be all over it --
and then we could put out the quotes showing how right Rove was.

And think of THIS: Not only do these quotes prove that Rove was not lying. BUT, the Democrat's OUTRAGE over being accused of this proves that they KNOW that their position is unamerican and outrageous.

They have just said that accusing them of doing what they did was slandering them. In other words, they have admitted that what they did was wrong, and offensive.


40 posted on 06/23/2005 1:56:05 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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